Introduction to Street Hawkers

Reports on Street Hawkers observing the National and International Status: Street Hawking as a Profession has been in existence in India since time immemorial. The hawkers are unique phenomena in all metropolitan cities of India . The practice of street hawking might have begun centuries ago. In those early days these sellers of various articles of daily household necessity were really hawkers in the true sense of the term....

International Status of Street Hawkers

 The problem of street hawking is not only a national issue but also an international one. Lack of gainful employment coupled with poverty in rural areas has pushed people out of their villages in search of a better existence in the cities. These migrants do not possess the skills or the education to enable them to find better paid, secured employment in formal sectors and so they have to settle their work in the...

National Status of Street Hawkers

Street Hawkers form a very important component of the urban informal sector in India . It is estimated that the total number of street hawkers in the country is around 10 million. They comprise around 2% of the total population in the metropolitan cities. This paper broadly defines street hawker as a person who offers goods for sale to the public at large without having a permanent built-up structure from which to sell....

Present Scenario of Street Hawkers in Contemporary...

1. Percentage of Hawkers Trade Wise:   Figure 4 In the Figure4 under the category ‘others’ we present the following goods items:- 1. Gift Item, 2. Glass, 3. Hair Cutter, 4.Jaributi, 5.Lock & Key, 6.Lottery, 7.Mobile Cover, 8.Pan, 9.Plants, 10.Plastic Item, 11.Repairing, 12. Ruber Stamp, 13.Sanitary Goods, 14. Shoe, 15. Shoe Polish, 16. Soap, 17. Stationery, 18. Sticks, 19. Sun Glass 20. Tools,...

Students’ Survey

Individual Reports of Students’ Collectiom of data and Observation. Student Surveyor – 1 My name is Subho Nandi. I am a 2 nd year student of B.Com Hons. I have collected data on five days beginning on 07.03.2009. On the first day, I met the hawkers at Rashbehari Avenue crossing in Kalighat and talked to them. Everyone of them wants to have a fixed, permanent job. All of them would like to possess permanent shops....

Observation of Investigators

Special Observation of Investigators: • The partition of India was the catalyst-in itself, a cataclysm in the life of this one great nation that witnessed the mass exodus of uprooted sea of humanity from the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, seeking a bare minimum of food and shelter in the districts of West Bengal, searching for an identity in an alien milieu, struggling to find a foot-hold in an unaccustomed...